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Post by antipaul »

tzs wrote: post #414
antipaul wrote: post #271

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Did you try training Siri? (Enable siri text) and then tap it when it says this app not found, and change "offy" to "Authie". After a few times, it should recognize your prompt

I'm not sure what setting that is. I've tried hitting the "tap to edit" thingy to edit the command it head from "open Offie" to "open Authy" several times, and it doesn't seem to really help much. It's not that much of a problem on my phone or iPad, because I can just ask it to open Authenticator (Microsoft's authentication app). When I set up TOTP for a site, I scan the QR code in both. It's on my Apple Watch that i…

Yea “tap to edit” is what I meant. But who knows how many past (mis)recognitions vs manual edits it takes to reform Siri.

I’d try to do it each time, hopefully won’t take too long to get it.

(On iOS 14, enable Siri - Siri Responses - Always show speech. On previous iOS, Siri is full screen and I think tap to edit is always available.)

Not sure about watch. However, I assume it should sync if you enable Siri to sync in iCloud. Settings - your name icon - iCloud - toggle Siri.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by [deleted] »

Razengan wrote: post #365
sexpositivepriv wrote: post #257

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It is not remotely a tech centric view. People want things to work. Stuff doesn't work in Safari because it's missing features. User's also want to pay less. PWAs let companies skip the app store and therefore skip paying apple 30% of their transactions which means cheaper prices for users. If apple allowed other browser engines those engines would have PWA support.

> User's also want to pay less. If that's all they wanted they would buy an Android. > PWAs let companies skip the app store and therefore skip paying apple 30% of their transactions which means cheaper prices for users. Exactly, this is what this is all about: companies wanting to milk users for more money and maximize their own profits, not that they actually care about the users.

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Post by coldtea »

bb101 wrote: post #404
coldtea wrote: post #174

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What exactly problems do people have with iOS 13? I always here some complains here and there. but, as with Catalina, never had any issue. Is it specific apps?

Catalina is a dumpster fire compared to Mojave. Waking up a Macbook Pro with two USB-C monitors plugged in, only one monitor comes on. I have to fiddle around by opening the laptop's lid or pressing Ctrl-Shift-Eject and waking it up again from scratch for all the monitors to respond. Leave Catalina running too long, its Watchdog process times out and it has a kernel panic. During the night every two or three days. Af…

I don't have two monitors (I do use one external + the laptop's own), so didn't have the issue either, but the "running too long" problem has not been my experience.

I have uptimes in the months (only rebooting for the ocassional update).

But if "dual monitors have issues" is the biggest issue that comes up when someone is asked to describe their problems with an OS, I wouldn't exactly call it a "dumpster fire". More like "smooth sailing". Doubly so if it's not experienced for everybody hooking two monitors but just for e.g. that specific brand or laptop run / monitor combination.

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Post by jazzdev »

Cockbrand wrote: post #392
AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

I'd really like the double/triple tap to work on a locked iPhone. Opening the camera app when the phone is locked would be a nice use case for this.

You can already open the camera app when the phone is locked by swiping left on the lock screen.

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Post by dhosek »

Polylactic_acid wrote: post #298
ObsoleteNerd wrote: post #290

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My wife has no disabilities (and is a very light/casual tech user) but uses heaps of the iOS accessibility features. I personally had never really looked at them until she started showing me how handy so many of them are day to day. Things like: The triple-tap-to-zoom feature has a “low light” filter that works on top of your brightness setting so you can use it to get a lower-than-lowest-brightness for reading in be…

I make use of big text mode on my linux laptop because 1080p on a 13" laptop makes everything tiny and fractional scailing is still a beta thing right now.

I've long used the Mac's ctrl-scroll shortcut for zooming in on the display. Ages ago, when I was working in the same room as the design staff for a company I worked at, they saw me do that and were quick to activate it on their iMacs as it's really handy for checking pixel-level rendering on web interfaces.

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

mint2 wrote: post #409
apexalpha wrote: post #363

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Apple found out people were using SD cards to expand the storage on their Macbooks in stead of buying the higher storage options... few years later the SD card slot is dropped entirely. Even the immense photo and video/graphics userbase of Apple wasn't enough to stop the SD card slot removal. :-(

Which model had the slot? Like the original? I started with the 5 and it didn’t have one but I’ve always been hampered by the lack of space.

MacBook laptops had SD cards slots, or at least the Air and Pro models. iPhones and iPads never did, although there’s been a super awkward adapter available for iPad since it first came out, but it is super limited in what it can be used for.

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Post by OkGoDoIt »

ghostpepper wrote: post #260
AnonHP wrote: post #228

One of my favorite new features in iOS 14 is an accessibility setting that allows a double tap or triple tap on the back of the phone to trigger an action. You can set this up in Settings->Accessibility->Touch->Back Tap . In general, I love how accessibility features on iOS are so useful even for the average person who wouldn’t be considered or classified as disabled.

This does not appear to be available on the iPhone SE (2016). Interestingly, searching for "Back Tap" does show a singel result for Accessibility -> Touch, but once you're there the option is hidden.

It requires the iPhone 8 or newer, sadly

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Post by pugwash »

tyrankh wrote: post #41

https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-13/features/ new redirects to https://www.apple.com/ios/ios-14/features/ , which seems like an unnecessary hacky way to get your SEO up. Separately: is it just me or has Apple lost its innovative edge? Widgets and app drawer, that's the huge new update? Android has had these for, like, 5+ years. Not that android has had anything super exciting lately, either. Maybe phone OSes have kind o…

They introduced widgets via the Dashboard on Mac long before Android was a thing. They’ve had widgets in iOS for years as well - what’s new is that they’re not confined to the notifications slide-down any more.

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Post by fakedang »

tekknik wrote: post #427
fakedang wrote: post #418

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I mentioned the Blackbox phone only because folks here (and mostly here alone) care about privacy. People outside this ecosystem don't give a damn about privacy - it's either the value of the phone at its price or its the capability of the phone which appeals to them. Appleistas are the only ones who talk about the Apple experience because clearly it's only Apple which came up with that marketing gimmick. There's not…

> There's nothing different or even superbly superior of the Apple experience compared to the Huawei or Samsung experience. Absolute horse crap, unless you speak for the market. I don’t have to carry two phones and also don’t have to worry about privacy. In fact I have a phone made by a company who could really give two craps about the ad market and feeding it more data. Second is you can be sure if it’s Apple you’ll…

The privacy of an Apple phone that allowed the Saudi prince to order a hacking into Bezos' phone, which ultimately leaked out info and led to his divorce? Yeah, no thanks.

Being on Blackberry, or any non-Google phone really, allows me to segregate my really important stuff from my every day stuff. Equating Apple's security to that kind of segregated security is a bunch of absolute horse crap.

Re: iOS 14 is available today

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Post by tekknik »

fakedang wrote: post #439
tekknik wrote: post #427

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> There's nothing different or even superbly superior of the Apple experience compared to the Huawei or Samsung experience. Absolute horse crap, unless you speak for the market. I don’t have to carry two phones and also don’t have to worry about privacy. In fact I have a phone made by a company who could really give two craps about the ad market and feeding it more data. Second is you can be sure if it’s Apple you’ll…

The privacy of an Apple phone that allowed the Saudi prince to order a hacking into Bezos' phone, which ultimately leaked out info and led to his divorce? Yeah, no thanks. Being on Blackberry, or any non-Google phone really, allows me to segregate my really important stuff from my every day stuff. Equating Apple's security to that kind of segregated security is a bunch of absolute horse crap.

Here you go, read how this worked: https://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Issues/Expression/SRsSumexFr...

TLDR, if your phone passes network traffic then it can be “hacked” too.

Security through obscurity is also horse crap, but hey carry your two phones if it makes you feel safer!

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